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ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
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MARJORIE Y9UNG
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ARLISS BOONE
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ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Charles Politz, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates
Edith Newton
Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary
Pvt. Bob Stephensen, Warren Miller,
Army Co-editors
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens,
Co-Women’s Editor’s
Bill Lindley, Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor
Norris Yates, Sports Editor
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McArthur court is one building that is two buildings—not
'two building's in the physical sense, in that the "second” build
ing is the world’s only mirage with a basketball court—but a
double building- in the atmospheric sense.
First it is the “Igloo”—rah-rah palace king size. Here, on
the polished maple acre basketball reigns supreme. Hobson
coached perpetuo-gallop teams run the legs off would-be in
vaders from the more agricultural regions, cheer leaders strip
vocal cords, "make with” facial contortions that swell the heart
<of the creator of I )ick Tracy, frenzied fans in cashmere and plaid
and corduroy, stamp feet, bounce on the swaying bleachers.
[Yells, yipes, groans and hoots. Here alone do girls scream not
for Frankie. It's a marvelous roaring madhouse, this rally pal
ace—the "Igloo.”
But the nickname vanishes and AIcArthur court is the con
cert hall. Here stars of opera, the dance, and concert stage
come each vear to entertain the student body of the Univer
sitv and citizens of Eugene.
The atmosphere of the concert hall is dilferent from that of
ihe basketball pavilion. The artist mounts the platform, pauses,
surveys the sea of expectant faces about him. A hush comes
ever the audience, bins which could be dropped—do not drop.
Filence- an absence of sound—that is the courtesy of the con
cert hall.
It has been the tendency of the student audience in recent
years to confuse McArthur court—the concert hall with
McArthur court—the basketball pavilion. There has been sound
.—an absence of silence. People have straggled in late, while the
artist was in the midst of a number. Their feet, however small,
have made their presence known. McArthur court is like a cave.
There are echoes. A sound, tiny at its inception, swells to gar
gantuan proportions.
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■! itude—"if 1 like il I'll stay and if I don't I'll just get up and walk
put"_AX'D TIIKY DO right in the middle of a number.
I.et us not forget the “sotto voce critics,” those charming' in
tellectuals who exchange running', notc-by-note opinions with
equally charming companions. The world would he so empty,
so unbearable, and so much happier without them.
Sir Thomas Beecham will long' remember the'exemplary
Oregon concert audience. I low could he forget them? What
happened ? Oh nothing much. T'was just a coke bottle. Becom
ing so enthralled with the passion of 1 schaikowsky and the
-pressure of its master’s toe it dropped front the fourth tier of
the bleachers during a rather impressive soft string number.
Sir Thomas, who is touchv that way, lowered lus baton in re
flexive response stopping the orchestra, turned on heel, glared
in the direction of the broken ”.Pause I hat Refreshes.
The pause was not relreshing.
Marjorie Lawrence, soprano, will appear in concert tonight
■at 8:15 in McArthur court—the concert hall. •—C.P.
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‘'Beginning Sundav, November /. monthly vesper services
will again he held on the campus, it was announced today. The
services w ill he held at 5 pan. in the music auditorium.”
.When we read this announcement, many of us, who are
not too keenly interested in religion, will remark "so what?”
That mat he a good question. Kspecially in these mixed-up
limes it may he a good question. Insecurity and turmoil are
the two keynotes of our time. Death and darkness are very
close around us, ves even around us students on the h niversity
of Oregon campus. After all, who is not the friend, lover, or
intimate of someone now living under the shadow of "death’s
hov'ring wing"? Who among us does not personally know some
family which has received that yellow slip of paper which be
gins with the words: "We regret to inform you—"?
Confronted as we thus are by chaos and eternity, is it any
•wonder that we have become perplexed and fearful? We have
tended to forget that in man's spiritual existence there is no
death, no insecurity, no ugly, bitter turmoil. Again and again
A Slip.
oft the Hip
By LIZ HAUGEN and
PEG HEITSCHMIDT
What with mixers back again
and that smooth army band
scheduled to serenade next Sun
day aft, the outlook brightens for
those few hours that we have off.
Many have inquired—so we
will tell. The “harem” threesome
of the Bill Sinnott “dutch treat”
dates is K. J. Jenkins, Julie Car
penter, and Shirley Gravely. Not
so dumb that Sinnott man— two
of them have convertibles.
Are Youse Curious
Curious people were only “cur
iouser” when Theta Phil van Pet
ten came downstairs t’other eve
ning, looking very swish in a
frothy pink ballet dress, ballet
slippers, and hair flowing. Where
was she going?- to study—and
she promtply settled herself in
the center of the living-room
floor, and' studied—all evening.
A picture of Horace with the
colonel's daughter sent to Gail
Nelson, Kappa dream girl, from
Florida, with no explanation, still
makes sparks fly. And speaking
of flying, Kappa Ellie Jacobs is
“up in the air” awaiting the plane
that will bring “Jimmie” •— yes,
he gave her the ring—in.
Navy day, and Birch lodge
(Delta Tau Delta) was visited by
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war’s week
♦ Tri-partite conferees Hull,
Molotov, and Eden announce
declaration of joint American,
Russian, and British war and
post war policies:
1. Unconditional surrender,
unity of action against the
commonenemy.”
2. Cooperation in a postwar
organization for the main
tenance of peaceful rela
tions.
3. Punishment of war crimi
nals.
♦ Russians isolate Crimean Ger
man forces.
♦ Marines land on Bougainville
island in the Solomons.
♦Fifth army cracks Rommel
defense line before Rome,
crosses Volturno river.
♦ Allies invite entrance of Tur
key into war.
♦ Wil'lielmshaven struck by es
timated 1,000 American
planes.
♦ Albanian mountain forces co
ordinate with Yugoslav guer
rillas under General Tito.
lO Ga/s, a Alan, a Mop *
Pull Ropes/ Shift Scenes
By ERVIN WEBB
The hook and ladder corps of the Guild hall gang, probably
better known to most as the Theater Workshop stage crew,
can boast this term of an astounding one boy, ten girl member
ship (seven girls more and one boy less than last year).
This one to ten grid-iron combination (the grid-iron being
the iron brace network above the stage) of fugitives from the
dramatic mop and broom detail, have just completed several
strenuous weeks of fall term
spring house cleaning. They
cleaned the workshop, stage,
store-room and drama studio and
did a little general face-lifting
on the “Hut’s” library (now a
reading room, with lights, tables,
and other comforts). Now they
have settled down to the nice
quiet life of scenery construc
tion.
Coverall' Kids
The white-overalled kids with
the green “Theater Workshop”
on their backs have already be
gan to sizzle on “Out of the Fry
ing Pan” sets under the guidance
of drama director Horace Robin
son. About this year’s crew
Robinson says, “This is the best
class I have ever had in Work
shop, and incidentally the best
looking.”
The sets for this production
are not of too complex nature and
are only two in number; there
fore the work-minded enthusiasts
will not be under much strain to
finish them in time for the show
which is planned for next month.
Ingenuity Will Out
The third production of the
year will be the crew’s chance
to show their ingenuity as it is
planned to be of a more or less
experimental nature.
The class meets twice a week,
Tuesday’s and Thursdays, inithe
afternoon. Part of each class is
devoted to lectures, the remain
der to actual work problems. The
class is also divided into two
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parts, one of which works on al
ternate Saturdays. The principal
work done is set designing and
construction, also the manipula
tion of the guy ropes, lights, and
other stage properties.
\>h, Those Ladders
Some time is always spent in
getting used to working on ted
ders and it has been rumored
that neophyte class members
have become more or less petri
fied at the top of a 12-foot lad
der as it sways in accentuated
rhythms at alternate 45 degree
angles.
But as mustachioed, imperturb
able Horace Robinson always
says when approached with the
question of “why don’t you fix
those ladders?” — “we’ll/t Vt
around to that as soon as U Ae
one breaks his neck.” Latest re
ports indicate all necks intact.
So the ladders will just sway on.
Globally Speaking
By BILB SINNOTT
One of the greatest causes of
distrust between -Britain and
America on the one hand and So
iet Russia on the other is the
civil war going on in Yugosla
via, between the Chetniks, backed
by the western allies, and the
Partisans, supported by the
Kremlin.
The Partisans are made up of
Croats and Slovenes--the Chet
niks of Serbs.
The hatred of Serb for Croat
made parliamentary government
impossible in Yugoslavia after
Versailles.
This hatred has its roots in
centuries past. The Croats and
Slovenes are Roman Catholics.
They use the Latin alphabet. For
hundreds of years they were un
it lias been reiterated that man’s strength is almost wholly de
rived from spiritual sources, and there is not a one of us who
does not need spiritual fortification. What more natural, then,
that we should he interested when a service like the Sunday
vesper program is offered us?
Some of you may not quite understand what the term “ves
per services" means. According to Webster, it means, "A ser
vice, largely musical, on Sunday afternoon.” Applied to the
University of Oregon, it means music by the 30-voice vesper
choir. It means the organ in the music auditorium lifting its
expressive voice in wordless song.
Next month it will mean the strains of Christmas folk
hymns in which both choir and organ cooperate. And even
more than all this, it means a quiet hour or two of prayer, medi
tation. and reflective discussion. There will he no-^preaching'1
in that sense of the word. Just a program of some of the great
est. most thought-inspiring music ever written, plus an audience
of students, soldiers, and faculty members who have gathered
together in this quiet, congenial atmosphere to think, not
argue or to he argued at.
Tt’s a good thing wo mentioned the soldiers.1 Let it he em
phasized that the army hoys are doubly welcome. After all., you
are the ones who will soon he out in the mud and blood, giving
up your lives in order that the rest of us may go right on attend
ing school undisturbed and he free to study' what wo please.
You are the men who are living under the grim shadow, death’s
hov’ring wing.
—N.Y.
der the easy-going rule of 4fce
Hapsburg monarchy.
Used to Self-Government
They were used to self govern
ment. Croatia is the industrial
area of Yugoslavia. The Croats
resented the fact that their tax
es supported a purely Serb bu
reaucracy. The Croats look do\yn
on the Serbs as barbarous^l
entals that had lived for so long
under Turkish rule that they had
taken over some of the charac
teristics of the “unspeakable'’
Turk.
The Serbs are Greek Orthodox,
use the Cyrillic alphabet. Tjfct-y
regard themselves as the most
virile people in the Balkans. The
Croats, to them, are effete, from
living too long under the old Aus
trian empire.
In 1917, Pashitch for the Serbs
and Trumbitch for the Croats,
signed the Pact of Corfu, by
which Yugoslavia would become
a federal state when it was or
ganized.
Pashitch was a tough, cynical
old man who yowed to see his
dream of Greater Serbia realized.
He forced through a constitution
in 1921 by which Yugoslavia be
came a unitary state under Serb
rule.
Croats Bitter ™ ''
The Croats were bitter, their
leader, Pachitch, was assassinated
in parliament in 1928. The Croat
deputies w.alked‘out in protest.
This led King Alexander to pro
claim a dictatorship in 1929. In
1934, Alexander, himself, was as
sassinated in Marseilles by a
henchman of Ante Pavelitch, the
present Quisling ruler of Croatia.
During the later thirties Yugo
slavia was in an uproar. The
country was a fertile ground for
“German tourists.” ‘The' RegH&
Prince Paul, in signing the Axis
pact, sold out to. Hitler. The
•Serbs,- led by ’ Gefiehal Simovich.
revolted, put Peter on the throng.
Then came the Nazi blitz of
April, 1941. Mihailovich was then
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